Author: Robert Plotkin
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Meditate to Calm your Political Anger and Learn to Accept Trump
No matter which side of the aisle you’re on, if you’re like most people, you’re probably feeling angered or even outraged by the outcome of the latest election. Either you’re upset about who has been chosen to run your country, or all the people that are upset are angering you. Either way, no one is…
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Study: Should Mindfulness Meditation be Prescribed for Anxiety?
Mindfulness is something which the medical world has yet to fully accept as a means for treating patients. Although mindful meditation has a variety of benefits, and has been around for thousands of years, it’s a relatively new concept to many doctors. One of the many things that meditation has been shown to aid in…
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Say Hello to Ella and Goodbye Pain
Today, it seems as though there’s an app for everything—whatever your problem, technology seems to have a solution. And why should health care be any different? The world of mHealth (mobile health) is constantly expanding. Soon, those suffering from physical pain on a daily basis will also be able to start experiencing the benefits of…
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Technology is Taking Over Minds Whether We Notice or Not
Technology is such an integral part of our lives, and as technology evolves and becomes more useful, it also becomes more manipulative and addictive. And the things is, the creators of these technologies know that—they design their websites or apps to work in this way. Sometimes they do it unknowingly, but more often than not…
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Mindfulness Tool Your Kids Will Actually Love
It seems as though each generation is becoming more and more consumed with technology as it becomes a larger part of our daily lives. Items like our smartphones, which just 20 years ago were non-existent, now seem to be necessities in our lives. Children no longer see these items as a tool, but as a…
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Mindful Breathing is an Art, One That Anyone Can Learn
Stop what you’re doing stand up for a moment and just breathe… now pay attention to that breath. Follow it as it goes and your chest expands with each deep breath, feel the air flowing outward. Okay. Now how do you feel? If you’re like most people, you’re probably feeling more relaxed, more present, and…
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What’s 2017 Looking Like for Mindfulness and Meditation?
The consensus is in, and meditation and tech experts across the board say that in 2017 is going to be the year that mindfulness and meditation take a huge leap into mainstream health. People today know they need to watch their health, their eating healthier and working out, but what about mental health? While mindfulness…
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Virtual Reality Meditation: A New Way to Relax
Virtual reality… another device to help us mindlessly waste time, play more games and watching more videos, right? While there are some experimental educational uses for VR such as virtual tours and potential medical uses, for the most part the general public (or the small portion of them that actually own a VR device) is…
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Screen Time is Changing Young Brains, but Could it be Good?
Today children are exposed to screens of all sorts from an early age: TV screens, phone screens, tablet screens, etc. A huge change from the times when the most screen-time children got was watching Saturday morning cartoons. Today we have 24/7 cartoon channels, games on phones, tablets, computers, and even devices made specifically for children.…
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Increase Your Productivity Every Day with Deep Work
We all have had those times when we’re feeling a little crunched for time, we have so much to do, but so little time… but what if someone told you that you could get more done in less time? That would be impossible right? Not according to Cal Newport’s idea of deep work.
